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to roundisli-ovate in outline, disposed to be truncatisli at base, 4 to 12 lines long, 

 pinnately cleft or sometimes divided into 5 lobes (or often coarsely 5-dentate) ; 

 leaf -lobes commonly acute or subacute, the basal pair sometimes distinct ; petioles 

 1/2 to 11/4 inches long ; peduncles shorter than leaves, curved-spreading and some- 

 times retrocurved, 4 to 14 lines long; corolla white or pale lavender, tubular- 

 campanulate, % to l^^ lines long ; corolla-scales minute, various, but i;sually half 

 free and laeiniate or eiliate, or none ; style as long as the ovary or longer ; seeds 

 orange. 



Moist or shady places in wooded hills, 15 to 1500 (or 4200) feet: Coast Ranges 

 from Monterey Co. to Del Norte Co. North to British Columbia. Mar.-June. 



Geog. note.— In California Nemophila parviflora inhabits the Redwood belt and its border 

 woodland of Douglas Fir, Tan Oak or Coast Live Oak. Like a number of coast line species, how- 

 ever, it also extends eastward to the northerly part of the inner North Coast Range, thus reappear- 

 ing in northern Lake County, in Trinity County and in the caiion of the upper Sacramento River 

 in Siskiyou County. 



Locs. — Cone Peak trail, Santa Lucia Mts., Carter 10G3 ; Soquel Creek, Santa Cruz Mts., Jepson 

 21,130; Crystal Springs Lake, San Mateo Co., Constance 2241; Mt. Tamalpais, Jepson 7451; 

 White Sulphur Sprs., Napa Valley, Chandler 7569 ; Russian Gulch, Sonoma coast, Constance 2153 ; 

 Pinnacle Rock Lookout, Bartlett Mt., Simontacchi 214; Cahto, cent. Mendocino Co., Jepson. 1849; 

 Look Prairie, Bull Creek, Humboldt Co., Constance 606; Van Duzen River opp. Buck Mt., Hum- 

 boldt Co., Tracy 2726; South Fork Mt., Trinity Co., Jepson 16,665; Corral Prairie, Trinity Sum- 

 mit, Tracy 10,492; Shasta Retreat, upper Sacramento River, Ccmdit; Crescent City (bluffs 5 mi. 

 s.), Tracy 12,028; betw. Somes Bar and Jim's ranch, Klamath River, Chandler 1537. 



Var. austlnae Brand. Plants small (the stems mostly 2 to 5 inches long) ; herbage thinly 

 hirsute on stems, moderately hirsute on the leaves, in both appressed or mostly so; leaf-blades 

 coarsely 5-toothed or shallowly lobed (the lobes more commonly rounded than in the species), 5 to 

 7 (or 12) lines long, gradually and cuneately contracted into a petiole 2 to 11 lines long; corolla 

 small, white or bluish, 1 to 1% lines wide. — Meadows and hillslopes, 4000 to 5500 feet: northern 

 Sierra Nevada from Sierra Co. to Modoc Co. ; North Coast Ranges in Siskiyou Co. East to Nevada, 

 north to Idaho and Washington. Apr.-July. 



Locs. — Sierra Nevada: Tuba Pass, Sierra Co., Constance 2304; Rich Gulch, Plumas Co., W. I. 

 Follett 49; Prattville, Plumas Co., Constance 2318; Fredonyer Pass, Lassen Co., Constance 2324; 

 Thorns Creek, Warner Mts., Modoc Co., Constance 2333. Western Siskiyou Co.: Quartz Valley, 

 Butler 1231; Marble Mt., Chandler 1649. 



Var. quercifoUa Chandler. Oak-leaj" Nemophila. Pubescence villous (softer and more 

 spreading than in the species) ; leaf-blades roundish or ovatish in outline, 6 to 9 lines long, sinu- 

 ately parted or divided into about 5 lobes, the lobes rounded and tending to be broader towards 

 the apes; corolla pale lavender or bluish ; peduncles mostly exceeding the leaves. — Montane slopes 

 and canons, 4000 to 0500 feet: southern Sierra Nevada from Kern Co. to Madera Co. 



Locs. — Kernville, Kern Co., T. Brandegee ; Limekiln Creek, Tulare Co., Jepson 2798; Pine 

 Ridge, Fresno Co., Chandler 91 ; Chilkoot Creek, near Bass Lake, Madera Co., Constance 2366. 



Refs. — Nemophila parviflora Dougl. ; Benth., Trans. Linn. Soc. 17:275 (1837), type from 

 the Columbia River, Douplas ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 433 (1901), ed. 2, 338 (1911), Man. 814 

 (1925). FiticeUa parviflora Mcbr., Contrib. Gray Herb. 59:32 (1919). N. diffusa Nutt. ; Hook., 

 Kew Jour. Bot. 3:293 (1851). N. micrantha Eastw., Bull. Torr. Club 28:146, pi. 16, fig. 8 (1901), 

 type loc. Mt. Tamalpais. Eastwood. N. lelloggii Eastw., I.e. 28:147, pi. 16, fig. 9 (1901), type 

 loc. Santa Cruz Mts., Kellogg 4' McLean. N. macrophylla Eastw., I.e. 28 : 144, pi. 15, fig. 5 (1901) , 

 type loc. Sur River, Monterey Co., Eastwood. N. parviflora subvar. mncrophvlla Brand ; Engler, 

 Pflzr. 4=51:55 (1913). N. plaslcettii Eastw., I.e. 28:147, pi. 16, fig. 10 (190i), type loc. Willow 

 Creek, Santa Lucia Mts., Plaslcett 32. N. parviflora var. plasketti Brand, I.e. Var. aiistinae 

 Brand, I.e.; Jepson, Man. 814 (1925). N. anstinae Eastw., I.e. 28:143, pi. 15, fig. 4 (1901), type 

 loc. Davis Creek, Warner Mts., Modoc Co., B. M. Austin. Viticella parviflora Mcbr. var. austinae 

 Mcbr., Contrib. Gray Herb. 59:32 (1919). Var. quercifolia Chandler, Bot. Gaz. 34:210 (1902) ; 

 Jepson, Man. 814 (1925). A". 5«erci7o?ia Eastw., I.e. 28:142, pL 15, fig. 3 (1901), type loc. Sequoia 

 Mills (Millwood), Fresno Co., T. Brandegee. 



8. N. breviflora Gray. Stem branching from the base, the branches erect or 

 ascending, 2 to 8 inches high, sparsely retrorse-hispidulous ; leaf-blades broadly 

 ovate or suborbicular in outline, very thinly hirsute or subglabrous, often eiliate, 

 14 to 11/4 inches long, often broader than long, thinly hirsute, pinnately 5-parted or 

 -divided, the lobes ovate to oblong, acute or acutish ; pedicels 2 to 6 lines long ; calyx- 

 lobes bristly-ciliate, otherwise glabrous ; corolla white, broadly tubular, 14 to 1 line 

 long, its tube white, the short lobes purplish; style veiy short; capsule 1-seeded; 

 seed large, reddish-brown, smooth. 



